Stories tagged flash-fiction

Words of Departure

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Not a fuss, not a stink, The eulogy, deep, will make one think, Grandmother, sat in back, will wink

Some Things Can't Be Fixed

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Orchids strewn over the floor...

Control

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Paul and Mary Jo lived in an apartment at the top of a long, dark flight of stairs that were so high, I remember as if it were yesterday thinking, the night she pushed him down the stairs, he would surely be dead by the time he hit the landing at the…

From This Distance

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Can you remember how we could each disappear completely. . . .

The Experience

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I decided this time I’m going right to the end.

At the Crossroads Bar

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An eye patch waits aslant his passenger seat.

The Circle of Life

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Maybe you could buy a Volunteer,” Carol suggested. Ma huffed. “You know we don't have the money for that. And besides I never liked the idea of Volunteers — taking advantage of the poor like that.”

We Light the Candles

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We are the chosen ones, those without sin, the goody two shoes, the mammy’s boys, the teacher’s pets, the suck-ups, the piss-a-beds, the creeping Jesuses of our class.